Example sentences of "were laid [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months . |
| 2 | The spending plans were laid down on the assumption of no recession . |
| 3 | His boots were laid out on a newspaper , and had been scraped and polished . |
| 4 | Leeming 's clothes , consisting of his woollen suit , shirt , underwear , white socks and black shoes , were laid out on a chair . |
| 5 | By the time Richard and Murray were called to the headmaster 's study a sheaf of publications headlining the incident were laid out on the large drum table . |
| 6 | Most churches were laid out on the basis of equilateral triangles and squares , the so-called ‘ ad triangulum ’ and ‘ ad quodraturn ’ methods . |
| 7 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 8 | Eliot 's presents were laid out on the table , and there was champagne and a birthday cake : when Rupert Hart-Davis lit the candles on the cake , Eliot knelt down and blew them out . |
| 9 | Once the railway company and the engineers had decreed where the station was in fact to be located , particularly the larger divisional points , 120–140 miles apart , towns were laid out on the traditional grid-plan . |
| 10 | I sometimes think that if the mutilated bodies of those who have been killed were laid out on the Floor of this Chamber the consequences of the decisions of those who sit here might be more effectively brought home to them . |